The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Monday that the death toll from the Israeli war has risen to "36,050  dead and 81,026 wounded" since October 7.

The ministry said in a daily statistical report: "The Israeli occupation committed seven massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 66 dead and 383 injuries arriving at hospitals in the past 24 hours."

It reported that "the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 36,050 dead and 81,026 wounded since last October 7."

It stressed that "a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them."

In addition to the victims, most of whom were children and women, the war on Gaza left approximately 10,000 people missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.

In a special update on the statistics of the "Rafah massacre" on Sunday night, the ministry said on Monday that it had reached "45 dead, including 23 women, children, and the elderly, and 249 wounded."

The ministry had previously announced on Sunday evening that more than 35 Palestinians had been killed in Israeli shelling of Rafah, one of which targeted a camp for displaced persons.

The ministry did not clarify whether the 45 Palestinians were killed only in the shelling of the displaced persons' camp in the Tel al-Sultan area, northwest of Rafah, or in other raids carried out by Israeli forces in the city on Sunday.

Israel had previously claimed that Tel al-Sultan was a safe area and did not warn its residents or request the evacuation of displaced persons. The bombing came two days after the International Court of Justice issued an order demanding an immediate halt to the Israeli ground offensive on Rafah.

The "massacre" sparked sharp regional and international criticism of Israel, with accusations of defying international law and calls for sanctions and pressure to end the "genocide" and halt the ongoing assault on Rafah since May 6.

Israel is ignoring a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate end to the fighting, and the International Criminal Court's intention to issue international arrest warrants for its prime minister and defense minister for their responsibility for "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" in Gaza.

For the 18th year, Israel has besieged the Gaza Strip, and its war has forced nearly two million of its 2.3 million Palestinian residents to flee their homes amid catastrophic conditions, with severe shortages of food, water, and medicine.